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    • Fast Start Event Marks Beginning of Detailed Survey Work Across the Region

      Connecting Devon and Somerset has held an event at Dartington Hall to mark the start of detailed survey work for the programme. The event was attended by planning, highways and traffic management representatives as well as key officers and members

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      A £94 million project to transform broadband speeds for businesses and residents across Devon and Somerset (including Devon, Torbay, Plymouth, Somerset, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset) within the next four years was announced today. Connecting Devon and

    • The New CDS Website Is Live!

      We’ve been busy working on the new CDS site and are pleased to announce it is now live. Key new additions are: Greater detail on our available community and business support and related partners YTKO and Cosmic. The new resident and business forms found on

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Information Technology

Resident @ Ilfracombe, Devon

Posted: 03/09/2012

My wife is an IT consultant. She operates from home, here in Ilfracombe, 3 weeks and from the London office for 1 week a month. The daily volume of data being moved between here, London, St Louis (USA) and Bangalore (India) reaches on occasion 0.5 Tb and can be very slow to transfer.

On occasions when I have collected her from the station coming home we have been joined by several other people who work in similar IT scenarios and move substantial data volumes.

The income these families bring to the locality is several orders of magnitude greater to those available in this town. Anecdotal evidence points to between 100 and 200 families are at benefit from such services, but if the speed could be reliably increased then probable numbers would swell to 400-500 families.

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